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I am not intending to try 100mpw until I have an target event lined up.
I might get up to 65 this week, not sure yet.
Also, sort of good news about the races...though not so good about the larger events. I am starting to wonder if we'll even have big races next spring. It's going to be a very long year if we don't.
Given how niggly my old bod is being, I decided I'd be better off walking than running today. I found another little nature reserve on the other side of Streatham so walked up there, then through a nearby park (nice little park on the side of a quite steep hill...too small for a parkrun but it'd be a challenging parkrun if they did have one) then back to Balham where I had to pick up my washing from the launderette. Five miles total.
What wasn't good was that I could feel my groin the entire walk (despite the fact I did quite a bit of foam rolling and ball gouging this morning), and that worries me. It's not a bad pain or a new thing but it is a problem and I don't want it to become a worse problem.
One thing I don't have to worry about is that three mile hilly race - when I checked it turns out it's only for Ranelagh Harriers and I'm not on the entrants list. Which is a bit of a relief given the current state of me.
On the plus side, I arrived back from my walk to find a mystery package. It turned out to be the T-shirt from the Virtual Tennessee "race", which I'd completely forgotten about. It's bright orange and cotton so I won't be wearing it for runs, but I've stuck it in the regular T-shirts drawer.
More waffle, still hoping for a miracle...
https://www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/news-media/latest-news/item/a-message-from-hugh-brasher/index.html
Edinburgh cancelled, sorry to hear that Cozy
https://www.edinburghmarathon.com/
On the positive, we've started harvesting some of our other produce today. Courgettes, kale and beetroot ready to go now. Over the last few weeks we've had quite a lot of different lettuce from the garden, but not much else. A lot of seems to have sprung into life now following the rain with some of the tomatoes starting to appear, along with the beans and peas, different leafy veg doing well etc. Pretty soon we're going to be inundated with courgettes and also tomatoes. I think we've got 15 tomato plants so we went a bit overboard with those as they produce very well (we'll get 100s if last year is anything to go by), and the courgettes do very well too. We've got 6 plants of those I think and we'll get dozens I reckon. But OH makes chutney so it doesn't go to waste.
I got some fresh fish delivered from a local supplier, which is very good quality and a good price too. So we'll be having some of that this evening with the veggies
On top of that we've got radish, different chills, pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, strawberries, different lettuces, beans, peas and leafy veg, carrots, parsnips, different herbs and...water melon(!). It's all doing well, although we have got a blueberry bush that looks like it's not doing anything.
Maybe the blueberries need a year or two.
I noticed the hedgerows had grown like mad with all the rain too.
Thanks for the help on the Bluetooth pairing, switched off Bluetooth on my phone and then my PC found the device, took a few tries but eventually successful.
Ian - no, I haven't, I looked a few years ago and it was too expensive at the time. But popular with Brits, think quite a few 100MC have done it.
What date is it?
Another rest day today,too crazy in work,11 hours so cant be bothered,stuck on 17 this week so need a very long one tomorrow.
Has anyone on here signed up for that 24hour thing? I take it the winner is the one that does the most miles in 24 hours and to be a finisher you have to do a minimum of one mile each hour.
I guess conditions would be good in August in Iceland for racing.
£85 is a good price.
That's good conditions
Ian, sounds like you've got a plan forming. I've never been to Iceland as I always thought it was expensive to get there. I'm pretty sure it is expensive from Bristol but I don't think I've ever looked from Luton. I'm never flown from Luton, anyway, as it is a bit of a nightmare getting there from here. Friends of mine went a few years ago when the ash cloud happened but they managed to get back on time. They really enjoyed it. OH has been years ago and she loved it there too.
I'm joining a Zoom call tonight with that Floris Gierman chap from his MAF YouTube channel. He's very good. He does have a programme that I think a few people follow (there's a cost, which I haven't looked into). I think what it is is that many people don't know if/when to start introducing speed work (so I'm not the only one who wonders that!) and I think his plan covers that. I'm not signing up to his plan as I think I know what I want to do regarding that, when I start. Basically, if we get back to racing and I do some shorter races, that will mainly be my speed work. In weeks with no racing I'll either do something like 5x1k, "race" a parkrun or do a tempo run all very much wth 80/20 in mind. So no "plan" as such, but I am hoping that with running at MAF I will then feel fresher when I do the speed work (edit, damn it - initially I said spadework, again!) properly.
I was looking back through my training when I felt I was running well through parts of 2018. Basically, although I wasn't running to HR I was regularly doing training runs at 9:30min/mile or 10s sometimes so I think I was probably in the right ball park. The main difference is that I didn't walk up the inclines, whereas now I do. The other main difference is that the pace wold have been more or less even and not taking into account my HR would have been rising towards the end of a run. I think the mistake I made in 2019 and even early 2020 is that I was training to those kind of 2018 paces (and actually sometimes quicker) when I wasn't at the fitness I had reached in 2018. In hindsight, I should have dialled the pace back when I came back from my shoulder injury and also that chest infection in terms of slowing down to more of a base training rate, to coincide with what my fitness was at that time. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but that is what I should have done. Live and learn. I do feel a bit stupid as I had actually recognised this but didn't really act on it. From my 3:40 Marrakech time in January I had worked out I was training too quickly - I am pretty sure I said that on here at the time, but I didn't really do anything about it apart from maybe two or three runs at a slower pace. I think with MAF, if I follow it properly, if I get injured or get ill again, this aspect is in his formula as my HR then should probably be at 132. Now that is very slow, but the point he makes is that at that rate you can still do some training (even if it means walking more) but it recognises that you've been unwell, rather than ploughing on through like I was unintentionally doing earlier this year. Anyway, I'm on it now!
The only concern I have about Reykjavik is the quarantine here,no mention of Iceland in the travel corridors even though they have very low incidences,probably because it's not a sunny summer resort.
I'm surprised you're not tempted by the marathon in Iceland too
That Zoom call will be interesting, it would be good to have a plan for when you reach the stage that you're ready to move on from only doing MAF paced runs, especially if you have races coming up too.
Re your comment about training too fast post Marrakech, when runners don't have a 'plan' the tendency is to run fast when you feel good and training ends up being faster than it should, but it's hard to change that without some planning.
As you say hindsight is a wonderful thing. Looking back we learn a lot and that's why it's important in our training records that we don't record just stats but how we felt, did run/race feel easy/hard etc and how was recovery. Often that information is more valuable than stats.
Ian - yes, the elephant in the room is the 14 day quarantine returning to the UK. 🐘 I can understand Iceland not being mentioned in press reports at the moment with talk of air bridges etc as most are only interested in their summer hols in the sun, Greece, Spain etc. But surely they would add the smaller countries that are low risk that will welcome tourists too.
Anyway, 7.5 miles this morning. I got rained on again, but not as heavy as the other evening so it was quite pleasant. I kept the HR where it needed to be but it was a harder effort this morning, but it was nice to be back out after yesterday's rest day.
I had to pop to the shops so decided I'd walk a bit first. Turned out to be a short walk - groin was pretty bad. So looks like I'm on the bench for a bit. I'm not sure how long - when I really messed up my groin at the end of 2016 and it was so painful I couldn't even cross my legs, I managed to get running again after a month. It's not that bad so hopefully won't be long. Normally I'd go see Toby, my physio, but don't think that's an option at the moment. I'll have to try and minister to it myself.
Depending on what mood I'm in when I'm out running I often think that in the future I'll race less often, then I change my mind and think I might race more often to try and catch up a bit on numbers. Still not sure.
I phoned Lufthansa, I'm in the queue for a refund and it will be done in due course, so I'm not going to chase again.
I should have gone for a run as I've been shopping again, another pair of shoes 😊. My second pair of Rides, they are lovely shoes and I'm considering using them for races, £49.99 bargain.
Re uploading data, data can be amended, I know I can alter quite a lot on Garmin Connect and I'm sure anyone with a bit more IT knowledge could change anything they wanted.
btw, I don't alter my Garmin data except sometimes the title of the run and I altered the distance on my last marathon as it was at Plym Trail and my GPS cut out going through the tunnel.
Cal, it's easy to fake GPX/Garmin files and upload them to Strava. But why anyone would bother doing that for that 24x1hr event I don't know, but it's easy to do if someone was so inclined. You can change the date and start time of a run as well as other details fairly easily. Sorry to hear about your injury
Decided to go for 19 today,weird number but fitted for me,a lot less humid than last week and it really made the difference,very controlled all the way through,sped up a bit 13-18.5 but then had 100ft hill in just under half mile and it's a beast,the worst part is that at the end it gets twisty and turny and it's hard to get in to a rhythm,got it done though.
Our virgin flights to LA in september have today been cancelled,really hoping I can get a refund as that will be £2k of vouchers hanging around with April's also gone.
Shades - possibly. I've had a niggly groin off and on for years - it's the same thing I injured doing squats in the gym. The 5K felt fine but it's got steadily worse since then.
Shame about your USA trip, are you going to try and rebook?. If not you definitely don't want vouchers for that value.
Big G - I think I will wait and see if/what changes there might be to our races. I may do less I'll see. I've already got 6 races entered for next year as they are deferred from this year.
I thought it was easy to doctor training data, some habitual cheaters on Strava I remember hearing about, don't know why they bother, only cheating themselves.
Rcouture - that's great to be near your highest mileage and not feeling any niggles, that's also a sign you are getting stronger as well as fitter. Any news on Brighton now that London aren't doing an update until end of July?
Cal - that sounds quite painful. Apart from your physio's hands on treatment can you remember the rest of the rehab that you can do at home?
Took ages to clear up my groin injury, but mine was different to yours as I could walk pain free.
LMH - I hope you're not injured too?
Our last guy ran his 5k TT tonight, finished in 18:49,quite a bit slower than expected as he normally beats me but I beat him by 50s this time.It was a good excuse for a speed session though and to go sub 18 solo was great.